squirrel in my celing

[check]

There is another way in that you haven't found yet. They have probably been storing nuts in your attic and it's become their home, so anything you do to block them from getting in there just means they will find or create another way of getting in there. Wood does not work. I've found that when filling, replacing or covering a hole with wood, they focus on that exact same spot to get in again. I've found the electrical metal cover plates work great. Four holes at each corner for screwing them in and they never get through that spot again. You really have to look at every square inch of your eaves, gable ends, dormers and flashing. It doesn't take much for them to get through and they will do whatever it takes to get there. The giveaway is they are creatures of habit and they will leave a trail showing where they are going. Eddie

Already looked everything over, but will check again this weekend, as there will be fresh fallen snow.

 

[MossRoad]

In the mid-70s and into the '80s, my parents spent summers in a house in Oklahoma that was build about 1929 and winters in an old mobile home on the Texas coast. One Spring, when they moved back to Oklahoma, they found a squirrel had gotten into the attic, gnawed or dug through the ceiling and fell into a bedroom. We can only guess that it starved, but it was lying in the middle of a bed, shriveled and dried up.

One year the moles undermined our swimming pool and drained it. I left it empty all winter. In the spring, there was a dead squirrel in there. Apparently it couldn't jump up out of the pool 52". Also, we found out squirrels aren't endurance swimmers..... we now always leave a ladder in the pool when its open.

My father had squirrel problems. They liked to chew on his douglas fir siding. Did much damage over the years.

 

[farmer2009]

You could alway take the approach a local sheriffs deputy did several years ago for a mouse problem. Let's just say he kept a pistol handy and his wife wasn't happy with a shot up kitchen. .

 

[escavader]

Ive caught 5 flying squirrels in my attic in a week
A few years ago i caught 26 in two weeks ratteap and peanut butter
They like a dark space alight on and a radio will deter them

 

[PILOON]

A red squirrel ate it's way thru the corner of pine door at our chalet.
I repaired the door by fastening an aluminum plate across the bottom full width.
The next week end when we came back to the chalet the bugger ate his way thru the 2 x 8 pine door frame.
That is when I broke out the .22 and practiced the 3 ESSES. (shoot, shovel,shut up)

 

[downsizingnow48]

Squirrel got into our house one time, chewed holes in several walls, crapped in children's bedding, knocking stuff around in the kitchen. a real nuisance. County animal control said moth balls in the attic would work. Nope. Another agent said little radios playing music would work. Nope. Closed up all the holes I could find around the eaves. Nope. One day I happened to come into the kitchen when the squirrel was busy there. Closed the door. Cornered the squirrel and bashed it with a rolling pin. That worked.

 

[Don H]

For some reason squirrels like to get under our cars. Had one chew through the anti-lock brake wires on the wife's car resulting in a $400 repair. I now shoot every one I see.

 

[MossRoad]

Cars or squirrels?

 

[Opti-Mist]

When I still lived up on the Canadian border I shot every squirrel that came in my yard and the pine martens helped to keep the population down. One did get in my crawlspace though and me and my trusty .22 pistol with a shot round caused it to cease and desist.

 

[Bird]

Opti-Mist, when I a teenager, and during my pre-teen days, we, too, shot every squirrel we could find; always used a .22 rifle, and we ate every one of them, too.:laughing: